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GEORGE W. DIOKERSON, OF NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, ASSTGNOR TO GEORGE DRAPER8t SONS, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOBBlN-SUPPORTER FOR SPOOLING-MACHINES.

LSPECIEICATION'forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,710, datedFebruary 24, 1885.

Application filed February 29, 1884. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. DICKER- soN, of New Castle, county of NewCastle, and State of Delaware, have invented an Improvement inBobbin-Supporters for Spooling-Machines, of which the followingdescription, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification, like letterson the drawings representinglike par-ts.

This invention has for its object to improve the means for holding thegravitating arms of the bobbin holders or supports for spoolingmachinesin place loosely in the carrier. The carrier is provided with a socketto receive parts of the arms, and the latter, placed in the said socket,are held therein by a metal cap which I have devised, it having tworings or projections to overlap portions of the said arms, the said capbeing held in place by a pin extended through the carrier and crossingthe cap, as will be described, such construction enabling me to quicklyand cheaply form a cap from wrought metal which shall be very light andquickly applied without the necessity of screws. Figure 1 represents anunder side view of a bobbin-support embodying my invention, therest-plate for the bobbin being mostly broken off to show the cap andarms and the means for holding the cap in place in the carrier; and Fig.2 is a section'of Fig. 1 on the dotted line 00 00.

Tlre'foot D, the bobbin-rest A, and gravitating arms B are substantiallyas usual. The carrier E is provided with a socket, e, to re- 5 ceive theportions f of the arms B, and these port-ions f are overlapped andloosely held in the said socket e by the metal capg, preferably of sheetor thin metal bent to form a central groove, and two wings or groovedparts 40 each side of it, as is best shown in Fig. 2, to overlap theportionsf. This cap is held in place by a metal pin, 71, having asuitable head, h, as shown, the said pins being inserted loosely throughsuitable holes in the carrier E and crossing the cap.

As herein shown, I am enabled to avoid the use of screws or the cuttingof screw-threads, and the cap is made very light.

I claim- The carrier E and the gravitating arms B B, combined with thecap'g, and the pin 8X: tended across the same to hold it in place withrelation to the carrier, the cap holding the arms to the carrier,substantially as set forth. 55

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresenceof two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE W. DIGKEHSON.

Witnesses:

FRANK P. RICHARDSON, WM. H. CLARK.

